Forwarded for Ron Allen <ral...@tuvam.com>
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Low-Power Transmitter Approvals
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:51:19 -0400
From: ral...@tuvam.com
To: j.schan...@worldnet.att.net,
wo...@sensormatic.com,emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Richard,
As the International Compliance Manager for TUV America, I concur with
many of Jacob's points. I believe that the primary ket to gaining
approvals is to make sure the first time, which countries you want to
enter and why. If you do not have local reps in the targeted countries
and you deceide you are going to process the approvals internally, don't
waste your time if you do not have a local rep.
In many cases, the local rep may not have the experience to deal with
the various regulatoty isues that arise, not to mention the technical
issues. In these cases, you may want to seek an alternatative method.
If your team is not familiar with the regulatory requirements for each
country you want to enter, it may be too much for you to expect your
reps to understand all the in's& out's. If you don't and they don't, the
time, frustration, and cost can quickly mount up.
Ron Allen
TUV America
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Schanker [mailto:j.schan...@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:37 PM
To: wo...@sensormatic.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: Re: Low-Power Transmitter Approvals
Richard:
Radio approval requirements still remain largely unharmonized. It really
is
a country by country thing, but there are some guidelines that you can
follow to reduce the amount of work and grief. I speak from first hand
experience.
1) Have Marketing define which countries are your target markets, and
have
them list them in order of priority. You cannot reasonably be expected
to
get approval for the whole world That doesn't mean that they won't want
you
to, however, so you have to push back.
2) Make copies of your FCC test report and of the test report for ETS
300
328 and whatever other EU testing you did. Have each copy notarized as a
true and complete copy (or get multiple originals from the test labs).
These
will be useful in gaining approvals in South America, New Zealand,
Australia, and other areas such as Eastern Europe and Africa.
3) Work closely with your local in-country people, distributors or
agents to
identify requirements. If they expect to make money off the sale of the
product, they should be helping in getting approvals. You need them
because
regulations and applications are generally in the local language, and
because many countries (Mexico, for instance) require a local entity to
make
the actual application and hold the approval.
By the way, don't believe that 2.45 GHz is legal to use unlicensed
everywhere. It isn't. Just check out the rules and allocation in Canada
for
an eye-opener.
Good luck.
Jack
Jacob Z. Schanker, P.E.
65 Crandon Way
Rochester, NY 14618
Phone: 716 442 3909
Fax: 716 442 2182
j.schan...@ieee.org
----- Original Message -----
From: <wo...@sensormatic.com>
To: <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: Low-Power Transmitter Approvals
>
> We are currently developing a low-power, short range, transmitter for
use
in
> the 2.45 GHz band. We know how to handle the testing, certifications
and
> licensing in Europe and North America, but we need to determine the
most
> cost effect method of testing to obtain licenses in other countries.
> Obviously, we don't want to re-test in each target country if we don't
have
> to; but we are unaware of any "CB" type scheme for radio testing and
> approvals. What methods have you found to be most cost effective?
>
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